Peckham Digital: Artist and Computer
Peckham Digital: Artist and Computer is a podcast exploring the evolving relationship between artists and technology. Inspired by Ruth Leavitt’s ground-breaking 1976 anthology Artist and Computer, the series revisits the original ten questions posed to early computer artists — asking a new generation how and why they use computers in their creative practice, what role technology plays in their work, and how they imagine its impact on the future of art.
Each episode invites a contemporary artist or creative technologist to reflect on their practice and share how computers shape their ideas, methods, and creative outcomes. From coding and AI to performance, digital culture, and beyond, the series offers an intimate look at the ways technology continues to transform artmaking — and how artists, in turn, shape the digital futures we all inhabit.
Produced by Peckham Digital, a not-for-profit dedicated to widening access to creative technology, Peckham Digital: Artist and Computer is both a li...
Episodes
Oct 9, 2025
Oct 9, 2025
37 min
In this episode of Artist and Computer, host Bea Taylor Searle speaks with Catherine Mason — an art historian, curator, and writer specialising in the history of digital and computer art. Catherine is the author of A Computer in the Art Room: The Origins of British Computer Arts 1950–1980, a landmark text that documents the early years of artists experimenting with technology in the UK.Together, Bea and Catherine revisit the original questions posed in Ruth Leavitt’s 1976 anthology Artist and Computer, reflecting on how artists first engaged with computers, the challenges that computer art has faced to enter the mainstream art world, and why these conversations remain vital today.Episode cover made by Lonni Omarii.Music by Joey Zhou. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.